DIAGNOSTIC TELEMETRY SYSTEM

Abstract

The theoretical aspects of diagnostics and diagnostic methodology are an important issue. Apart from theoretical aspects, this paper presents experiment results and a practical implementation example. Telemetry has a numbe of different definitions, depending on the area of application. It is generally defined as data acquisition at a remote, inconvenient and/or dangerous location and subsequent transmission of the data to another location for analysis. Telemetry systems are increasingly popular. The most widely used systems include the equipment for monitoring truck scales. The data obtained with this method allow estimating vehicle weight with accuracy between 90% and 98%. Currently a large number of ready-made, professional telemetry systems are commercially available. The LabView programming language used in this example allows for data visualization and acquisition. It also allows saving the executed program as an individual application. The measurements additionally included temperature, throttle position and battery voltage. Experiments proved that for stable communication an 80 kbps band is required. The commonly used telemetry systems, and even their custom-made original versions (as the one here presented), allow for remote diagnostics of an object using widely available communication technologies. The problem seems to be very development and requires further studies, which are scheduled in the near future.